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Show CANDIDATES FOR LEAGUE PRESIDENT Chicago, 111. Nov 15 The man agTB of the Federal league teams met In this city toda) and It la expected that one of the results or their dellb erations will be the selection of a president. Among those whose namea have been prominent In the discus sion of the possibilities for the post are those of Ed Steinlnger and Lloyd Rlckert. The former has been the favorite of Otto Stlfel, a St Louis backer bac-ker or the league, while the latter has been boosting his own game considerably, con-siderably, it Is said It Is believed either or these two will meet with determined opposition Neither car command unanimous consent Charles Carr of Indianapolis. Is also a candidate. His adherents in that city point out that he is widely ex perienced in organized baseball, that he has been successful on the dlam ond, and also In the business world, and that he is a man thoroughly equipped to bead the league. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, it is said he would make a worthy general In case open warfare Is waged upon the new rival by tht-two tht-two older big leagues Carr has been non-oommlttal on the subject. But it ti believed he would consider the. right kind of an offer The selection of a president would have been made when the Federal magnates met in secret session In Indianapolis In-dianapolis November 1, but It wps decided de-cided that time for consideration should be given to the managers of the two new teams, Buffalo and Bal tlraore, which were admitted at this gathering |